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The golden years: How to help residents gracefully age in place

Ungrated

Simpson is a manager of 55-and-older communities in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Some communities form welfare committees or buddy systems with volunteers to check in on neighbors to ensure they are safe, living in sanitary conditions, and healthy. Dwayne Taylor is the general manager of 2101 Cooperative, a high-rise in Philadelphia.

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How to Reset Your Board Diversity Efforts

Associations Now

How to do that? The study, Closing the Gaps , explores efforts among educational and healthcare nonprofits in the Philadelphia area, and identified a few bright spots: Women trustees and trustees of color have increased between 2019 and 2022, but diverse board chairs are rare, and some boards remain exclusively white.

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Streets of Philadelphia All Set for DNC

Associations Now

And with a convention of this size, with so many high-profile and influential attendees, you better believe the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau and Philadelphia 2016 Host Committee have been hard at work ever since the DNC was awarded to them in February 2015. In other words, the DNC will be huge. Fun for Everyone.

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Ringing the Bell for Member Engagement

YourMembership

I focused on it in my presentation “How to Build an Online Community” and received a lot of interesting feedback from those association professionals attending. Being in Philadelphia I couldn’t help but think of the Liberty Bell as an analogy for the challenge of driving member engagement. at the committee level.

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5 Types of People Who Need Nonprofit Fundraising Training

Achieve

Unfortunately, too many nonprofit leaders say that they already know how to fundraise when they. Either they think they know, or they’re not comfortable with what they’ll be asked to do, or they’re too embarrassed to admit that they don’t know (especially when they told the search committee when they were hired that they can raise money!).

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Coronavirus Updates for Association and Events Professionals – What You Need to Know

AssociationChat

Here’s how to ensure they’re effective now that COVID-19 has forced them to work remotely. The schedule for the games is key to preparing for the games,” Tokyo organizing committee president Yoshiro Mori said. billion users worldwide, across 12 different industry verticals. This will only accelerate our progress.”Last

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Daily #COVID19 Updates for Association and Events Professionals – What You Need to Know

AssociationChat

Here’s how to ensure they’re effective now that COVID-19 has forced them to work remotely. The schedule for the games is key to preparing for the games,” Tokyo organizing committee president Yoshiro Mori said. billion users worldwide, across 12 different industry verticals. This will only accelerate our progress.”Last